Change Devices Data Protection Manager Server with ConfigMgr

This month we ended up moving one of our offices into a new building. Of course, there are many elements that go into moving a building with local IT infrastructure. In this case, one thing that had to be done was moving the devices to a new Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Server (DPM).

Microsoft thankfully made this very simple. When you install a DPM client, it comes with a utility called SetDpmServer.exe. The SetDPMServer.exe allows you to define a server name that the device should use to backup data.

In this post, I am not going to show the DPM configuration changes. However, from a really high-level you could do one of the following options:

Import from a TXT file all the devices from the old server into a new Protection Group on the new Server. (This is the option we went for)

Reassign all the clients and then when they show up in the DPM Server Console, assign them to the correct Protection Group